Tornados - Chaos and Destruction

While watching yesterday's
evening news, I was already delighted that no little red lights were
flashing. It seemed like business as usual. Just a few more hours and the
square between Uranus and Pluto would be exact for the third time – and
nothing happened. Astrologers sometimes truly hope that certain images in
the firmament will have no meaning for once.

Then the pictures from Moore, Oklahoma, a small town devastated by a
tornado, arrived this morning. The residents say that it appeared too
quickly and too suddenly. And sixteen minutes advance warning time was
too short, even for the inhabitants of a city in which tornados have
become a threat over and over again. Which raises the question: Are there
perhaps astrological signatures under certain circumstances within
specific timeframes that could at least provide a rough idea of such
natural phenomenon? And, if the first meteorological warning signs could
actually be observed, would it be possible to lengthen the advance
warning times?

This is certainly a daring thesis and I candidly admit that I have
hardly thought about this combination up to now. Even if it was quite
customary in earlier times to derive medium- and long-term weather
forecasts from astrological constellations. But we now live in an age in
which even a majority of the astrological community is convinced that
there is no causal effective correlation between positions of the planets
and "outer" events. Instead, astrology is more or less seen as
just a symbolic language of the spirit that solely enables pictorial
access to our inner areas of experience.

But if we assume that there is a correlation between such disastrous
natural phenomena as this tornado and certain planetary positions, then
it would be hard for this to "not be the cause." So there must
also be a mechanism of action in the broadest sense that reveals itself
as a result – unless we consider a tornado to be just a symbolic image
for inner, vehement movements. So this is a balancing act, and I would
like to say this right at the start so the impression does not arise that
someone here knows why the town of Moore was destroyed by a tornado
yesterday. And that I could give the astrological reasons for it. I have
no idea, but I can at least do what I always do: place the picture of the
events next to other, similar occurrences and search for conspicuous
factors. In the broadest sense, this is probably called open-ended
research.

At 2:56 p.m.
local time, the tornado had touched down yesterday for the first time. We
can obviously wonder extensively that the absolute exactness of the
square between Uranus and Pluto was achieved just three hours later. And
the symbolism of both energies can also be appropriately transferred to
the development of such a storm. The suddenness, the chaotic and
surprising moment are a Uranian expression, and the destruction of fixed
structures and the basis of life is a Plutonian image. If the two are
construed in a psychological sense, there are many possibilities of
interpretation that also contain a positive transformation and change.
But in relation to the actual, concrete events, this scope is relatively
constricted; unfortunately, natural cycles and events always also contain
forms of expression that can only be called life-threatening.

The question remains as to why something that basically relates to
the world as a whole only manifests in this way at one location. One
answer could perhaps be: Because the media reality of our age turns such
single events into a consciousness factor for the entire rest of the
world. After all, the pictures, the terror and desperation of those who
were affected do not leave us detached; instead, they bring us into
contact with the feelings and fears that such events would trigger in all
people.

Why this
happened on the physical level in Moore and not also in Berlin or Hamburg
can only be shown astrologically through the precise time quality at the
location. And, as so often, this is where a strong signum can be found in
the event chart. Jupiter stands very precisely at the Mid-Heaven, and the
principle of overdimensioning is also significant locally at this point
in time as it dominates the current moment. So this could very much be an
indication if we also consider another event chart: the development of a
tornado that ravaged Moore in May 1999.

According to the official data, the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak
occurred on May 3, 1999. Even to this day, it is seen as one of the worst
natural disasters in the USA. Within just eleven hours, about 70 tornados
swept across Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The strongest of them hit the
small town of Bridge Creek and also affected Moore.Here as well, there
was a Jupiter signum in the creation of the F5 tornado. This time
together with Mercury on the DC of the event location. The Sun stands in
the approaching square to Uranus and the Moon in Sagittarius is almost
precisely in opposition to the Jupiter position of yesterday's
catastrophe. And, strangely enough, the 1999 Saturn stood in almost exact
opposition to yesterday's Saturn position.

A tornado also hit the small town and
destroyed many houses on October 4, 1998. According to the data of the
National Weather Service, this occurred at approx. 8:34 p.m. This time
Saturn is on the DC and Neptune on the IC, but there was a Moon - Jupiter
conjunction right before this. This may seem like some random factor, but
the situation changes when the next tornado in Moore is calculated. On
May 8, 2003 just before 5 p.m., a category F4 tornado once again
destroyed parts of the town. Once more, the Moon is in conjunction with
Jupiter; it is in an exact opposition to Mars and a somewhat more distant
one to Neptune this time. Oddly enough, Pluto is now located exactly on
the same degrees and arc minutes as those of the Moon on May 3, 1999
during the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak. This type of transference can also
be found in other areas; planetary positions in the one event chart are
repeated in the other but the protagonists – the planets – change.

As so often, these are many individual pieces of information that
are far removed from depicting a clear and distinct picture. Even if the
emphasis of the Jupiter archetype is conspicuous and also makes
astrological "sense." But in any case, this is a start and
perhaps an encouragement for further investigation. At the end of which
some clever mind will discover something that some years from now will
expand the advance warning time for affected regions at the least to the
extent that people can protect themselves from the immediate
consequences. Yesterday's square between Uranus and Pluto will repeat
another four times; only in spring 2015 can we hope that it will no
longer appear – at least not in this form.

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